Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-05-25

pnI0tuo InaG VIII enable you 20 9AIoly Cut
on the head 81 your best friend among
the spectators =
Aiilitiaman Schultz stopped for breath
when he had piled all this mystic lore
upon the reporters head, and gave the
scribe chance to talk on his own account
Tremendous, the reporter said, land
what did you say Il would cost to learn It
alls''
II didn't say vet, " retorted the militia
man, who can do over 800 strange, be-
wildering and incomprehensible deeds q
dilblerie-.T didn't say yet, but I'm
going to tell You now. You or anybody
else can learn to become magician 81
varying excellence by paying from $50 to
$500 to any one Of the pupils whom Herr
man or Heller has kindly taught. For
So you can learn select few good tricks,
but for $500. probably, or 5000 at the out
eide, you can get q training that win enable
yol to do everything that anybody who
doesn't want the earth would care to per-
form.
1.-THE conjurer must be good talker
and b funny one at that BY saying
funny things and being perfectly cool at
all times he can travel smoothly along
with every trick. II Is necessary In q
great many good tricks to talk away at
the spectators TO give them the impression
that you are explaining what you are
gong to do, when In reality You only
want to mislead them. The man who
taSss wel1 and entertainingly can accom-
piish his purpose readily. Who ever saw
Heller, for instance, was delighted as
much by his bright talk almost as by the
tricks he did. II trick Is successfully
performed the wise conjurer win not re-
peat 1t again that night. The wise con-
jurer viii also keep his spectators some
distance from his conjuring tables, and,
above all, IL he blunders he win never
allow the blunder to confuse him, but
vein cleverly pretend that 1t was an effect
that he purposely intended to produce.
The conjurer can never afford to be in too
much of hurry either. He wants to be
dead sure that he Is going ahead with Ger
tainty. Magic, In short, Is one Of those
Times in which you have to hasten
slowly"
A FEW NEW TRICKS.
Militiaman Schultz paused again, and,
borrowing the reporters lead pencil,
kindly pulled two Reina Victoria cigars
out OF the end Of 1t, and presenting one to
tho writer, lit the other himself. Then
he pulled yards Of tape cut Of the sharp
ened end Of the pencil and poker deck
ont of the side, and sat down laughing.
by the way the reporter asked when
the pencil was returned uninjured,
whats new In magic, anyhowi''
This, z replied the mystic subordinate
Of Col Scott. There was q buzzing sound
iii the magician's scarf, and the gold
monkey head chartered its teeth and
rolled its diamond eyes at the reporter In
most remarkable manner.
Another new trick, continued the
militiaman, lis what is called the mes
merized skull It is an imitation skull,
that, when set upon pane Of ordinary
window glass placed upon the tops of two
ordinary chairs, viii move its head about,
following the performers movements,
and viii nod or shake for affirmative or
negative answers to any guests, while the
conjurer stands some distance away. Il
can be examined at any time. TO demon
strate that it Is not worked by any string
it can b. covered with an ordinary trans
parent Ian p shade, and win still continue
its mot ions. Still another new mechani-
cal tr.cK Is the enchanted bird cage It
working Parts Or Gums.
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